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  Binance Says Everything Is OK. It Really Isn’t October 31, 2026 at 1:35 AM GMT+8 Is anywhere safe? Photo: Bloomberg Save Translate 5:11 Takeaways by Bloomberg AI The digital-asset industry has just suffered the biggest heist in its brief history with the $6.3 billion hacking of Binance, the No. 1 crypto platform. Yet the messaging from the top is that things are going to be A-OK. The company has promised to cover all losses and it says customer funds are safe. The traceability of blockchain transactions has allowed some intermediaries to freeze billions in assets linked to the incident, and Binance says it’s started to recover stolen sums. The market reaction has been relatively contained so far. The price of Bitcoin is down about 2%. At the risk of going against the unshakable faith of crypto evangelists, however, I’m not sure everything really is OK. There’s a lot we still don’t know about the hack itself, although initial investigations by Binance suggest a software engineer’...
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  Thousands return to Lisbon square, press government to scrap rental bill November 1, 2026 3:39 AM GMT+8 Updated 13 mins ago Item 1 of 6 A Portuguese housing activist uses a megaphone during a protest in Lisbon, Portugal, October 31, 2026. REUTERS/Rodrigo Antunes [1/6] A Portuguese housing activist uses a megaphone during a protest in Lisbon, Portugal, October 31, 2026. REUTERS/Rodrigo Antunes Purchase Licensing Rights LISBON, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Thousands of housing protesters returned to one of Lisbon's main squares on Saturday, stepping up pressure on Portugal's ​minority centre-right government to scrap a rental bill they say would ‌worsen the country's affordability crisis. Portugal is grappling with one of Europe's worst housing crises , with young people among those hardest hit. House prices have more than doubled since 2017 and rents ​for new leases have nearly doubled. The Misinformation Monitor newsletter rounds up international misinformation narratives, wit...
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  Las grandes ciudades y los comercios se blindan ante posibles disturbios por las movilizaciones espontáneas de Blocus Gran despliegue policial en las calles, tras las detención de ocho jóvenes seguidores del movimiento en España en la víspera de la fiesta de Halloween Un grupo de operarios coloca paneles de protección en un escaparate de la tienda Loewe del paseo de Gràcia de Barcelona, este viernes. Foto: CARLES RIBAS La amenaza procede de unos jóvenes, muchos de ellos menores de edad, que quedan a través de las redes sociales para protagonizar, enmascarados, supuestas protestas estudiantiles. Pero la acción final del movimiento Blocus , surgido en Francia, deriva en violentos disturbios, saqueos en comercios y actos vandálicos en la ciudad. Sucedió el pasado sábado en Barcelona, donde hubo 128 detenidos, 15 agentes heridos y más de una veintena de comercios vandalizados. Y ahora, ante una nueva convocatoria y la posibilidad de movimientos espontáneos para este sábado, 31 de oc...
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  Poland Deploys Riot Police in Standoff Over Country’s Top Court After years of legal wrangling, judges backed by the current government suspended the chief justice, as a feud escalated with the right-wing party that last held power. Listen · 5:00 min Police officers guarding the entrance to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw on Saturday. Credit... Rafal Niedzielski/Associated Press Poland’s centrist government deployed riot police at the country’s Constitutional Tribunal late Friday, amid an escalating confrontation between the prime minister, the president and allies of the previous right-wing government. The police intervention followed an effort Friday by a group of government-backed judges to take control of the tribunal, the nation’s top court, from its chief justice, who is aligned with the previous government of Law and Justice, a hard-right nationalist party. Ever since its election in 2022, the centrist coalition government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has bee...
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  En Pologne, la bataille pour le retour de l’État de droit s’accélère Le président polonais Karol Nawrocki, qui se rendait au Sénégal pour une visite d’État et a fait demi-tour pour rentrer à Varsovie. Dawid Zuchowicz/Agencja Wyborcza / REUTERS RÉCIT - Des juges, investis par le Parlement mais non reconnus par le président, ont pris le contrôle de l’institution avec l’aval du premier ministre. L’opposition dénonce un «coup d’État». Il est près d’une heure du matin vendredi soir, lorsque le petit attroupement se forme dans la Cour du tribunal constitutionnel. Le président Karol Nawrocki , accompagné du président de la Cour suprême polonaise, et de leurs services de sécurité, s’apprêtent à forcer l’entrée du tribunal constitutionnel. Le chef d’État vient d’écourter sa visite au Sénégal en urgence pour venir confronter lui-même les nouveaux juges qui ont pris possession des lieux alors même qu’il avait refusé de les investir. Il joue des coudes pour se frayer un chemin dans la foule ...
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  Listen Share Print Translate Article Settings Increase font size Decrease font size E-Mail Alerts & Support E-Mail Alerts Contact Us Feedback US tech stock slide accel­er­ates amid ques­tions over AI value ▸ Earn­ings updates stoke fears ▸ Intel shares fall 30% ▸ ‘Reset’ in expect­a­tions Financial Times Europe EMILY HERBERT — LONDON GEORGE STEER — NEW YORK ARJUN NEIL ALIM — HONG KONG LEO LEWIS — TOKYO 31 Oct 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen US tech stocks tumbled fur­ther yes­ter­day as dis­ap­point­ing earn­ings from Amazon and Intel intens­i­fied investor fears about the sus­tain­ab­il­ity of the AI boom. The Nas­daq 100 dropped 3.7 per cent, fol­low­ing a $500bn rout in Alpha­bet shares on Thursday that sent the tech­heavy index down 1.4 per cent. The index hit ses­sion lows after the FT repor­ted that Anthropic might no longer tar­get an invest­ment-grade credit rat­ing after its IPO. The S&P 500 was down 1.9 per cent. Amazon shares sank 2.3 per cent after it po...
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  Listen Share Print Translate Article Settings Increase font size Decrease font size E-Mail Alerts & Support E-Mail Alerts Contact Us Feedback Why Trump’s tech dreams are quietly crum­bling Financial Times Europe Gil­lian Tett gil­lian.tett@ft.com 31 Oct 2026 Settings Print Share Copy Listen This week, Philip Wong, formerly chief sci­ent­ist of the mighty Taiwan Semi­con­ductor Man­u­fac­tur­ing Cor­por­a­tion, now a Stan­ford pro­fessor, looked at where his former PhD stu­dents now work. He found that a mere 17 per cent have jobs at com­pan­ies that actu­ally make micro­chips (like Intel, Micron, Sam­sung, SK Hynix or TSMC); the rest are at entit­ies design­ing or using them (such as Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Google and Pin­terest) or else­where (like McKin­sey). “[They] all have the skills to go inside a clean­room and make a chip from a blank piece of sil­icon [into] a work­ing tran­sistor or memory device,” he tells me. “Yet a major­ity have chosen to work in other indus­tries.”...
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